Democrats Keep Trying To Offer An ‘Alternative’ To Trump. That’s Their Problem

The Federalist ^ | October 22, 2025 | Eddie Scarry

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Two recent articles have a couple quotes from prominent Democrat strategists that inadvertently capture the filthy rut the party continues to wallow in. They even use the same word.

In The Hill on Monday, campaign strategists Doug Schoen and Carly Cooperman declared that “the heart of Democrats’ dilemma is an inability to articulate their own path forward” and a failure at “communicating their own credible and attractive alternative” to President Trump’s agenda. Over in The New York Times one day before, pollster Celinda Lake almost identically said, “The biggest thing the Democrats need to do is not the negative but the positive. We have to offer an alternative.”

Sounds like a plan! So what’s the “alternative” to securing the southern border, cracking down on inner-city crime, and promoting affordable energy production? What’s the alternative to using real U.S. muscle to force a peace deal in the Middle East? What’s the alternative to insisting foreign leaders open their markets to American-made products, lest they pay penalties? (And in the meantime, they certainly are paying.) What’s the alternative to a military that prioritizes fighting capability over “diversity,” “equity,” and “inclusion”?

We’ve seen what the alternative to all of that looks like. It was called the Biden years. Or, if you made less than $250,000 per year, you might have more commonly known it as “Is this hell?”

Here’s an idea for Democrats though: Not everything needs an alternative. A lot of problems, maybe most of them, have one practical solution. To pretend otherwise is to play with real people’s money, their safety, and that of their families. It turns out it’s not very popular to do that.

It’s also not popular to pretend that problems aren’t problems. Recall all of 2024 when Democrat leaders, plus...

[MacNaughton]

[No.6]

I do not understand these writers. They pretend that Democrats are trying to win actual live American citizens’ votes, or do things that have any relation to making American citizens’ lives in any way better.

They had a near shot at effecting a communist Islamist takeover by means of fraud and replacing the electorate and they’re committed to it. Everything else follows.

[SMARTY]

Huuhhhh…? There’s an alternative to success? 😮

[Vaduz]

Their is no Alternative for Trump he’s the best thing for civility and liberty.

And that’s what pisses the democrat off so much.

[SunkenCiv]

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